As the first step in establishing the foundation for our ongoing strategic communication plan, the CAP is undergoing a rebranding effort to bring a new, exciting face to the organization. The first step in the rebranding initiative was to establish a new look/feel for the organization by standardizing on fonts, colour palette, and a graphic… Read more »
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Congress Registration opens April 1st
Registration for the CAP 2017 Congress to be held at Queen’s University, in Kingston from 29 May to 1 June 2017, opens on Saturday, April 1. There are significant savings for members and those who register and pay by midnight (EDT) April 30th. Membership has its benefits! For full members, the registration rate for the… Read more »
Post-Deadline abstracts accepted (207 CAP Congress)
Starting on March 15, the CAP will be accepting post-deadline abstracts for the 2017 Congress at Queen’s University, Kingston (May 28 to June 1). Post-deadline abstracts will be considered on a first-come, first-considered basis so we encourage you to submit your abstract as early as possible to increase your chances of being accepted into the… Read more »
Report from the CAP President
As you will read elsewhere in this Bulletin, there has been quite a lot going on at the CAP office of late. We are of course gearing up for the Congress to be held at Queen’s University between the 29 May and the 2 June 2017, the 2017 CAP Lecture Tour is in full swing,… Read more »
CAP Member Chris Pugh featured in Globe and Mail
Our graduate-student representative Chris Pugh’s research was profiled in the Globe and Mail on Tuesday. The article “Canadians solve key puzzle for future of encryption” chronicles his recent work testing a system for long distance free space quantum communication. For the test he was buckled into a plane with no side door. Chris is a… Read more »
2016 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to US-based researchers David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
The CAP congratulates David Thouless of the University of Washington, Duncan Haldane of Princeton University, who is also a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute, and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University, recipients of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on exotic states of matter. Kosterlitz and Thouless were the architects… Read more »
CAP members receive Royal Society of Canada honours
2016 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics François Légaré Institut national de recherches scientifiques (INRS) François Légaré is internationally recognized for ultrafast molecular imaging, for the development of high-power lasers and their applications, and for tissue imaging with nonlinear optical microscopy. Among his major scientific contributions, he has developed a new laser amplification scheme called Frequency… Read more »
2016 CFREF funding includes big support for two CAP members
Last week, the Canadian Government announced investments in Canadian University research programs totaling $900 million through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). Among the 13 successful postsecondary institutions were the University of Waterloo with the Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) program and Queen’s University with the Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre (CPARC). “Today’s investment by… Read more »
Congratulations to Order of Canada recipients Art McDonald (CAP member) and Peter Calamai (CAPF Board member)
The CAP congratulates CAP member Art McDonald from Queen’s University/SNOLAB who will be promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, and CAPF Board member Peter Calamai, retired science writer most notably with Southam News, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Toronto Star, who will be invested as an Order of Canada member on Friday, May… Read more »
CAP member Charles Gale awarded 2016 Killam Research Fellowship
Charles Gale, James McGill Professor in the Department of Physics at McGill University, is one of six outstanding scholars who have just been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship. Dr. Gale will work on “Nuclear Matter under Extreme conditions: Elucidating the Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma”. Dr. Gale was awarded the CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and… Read more »